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Introduction

The aim of these pages is to provide reflection and analysis
related to the processes of the workshop during and after the event. These
pages will contain a discursive mixture of reportage, dialogue, illustration,
critical reflections and emerging strategies
and methodologies for creating mediated performance work. The original
aims of the overall workshop can be read here.

As with many "new media" projects, the use of electronic
technologies in performance work can be traced back along historical
and aesthetic trajectories that include and overlap with a range of
art practices including installation, performance and communication art,
video, and animation. In doing so, one encounters many of the same concerns
being addressed using different forms of technology in different contexts.

One aspect of the SDAT04 workshop has been to utilize
a triggering/sensor environment in the performance
space. This has had particular implications for the dancers
and also for the animators who wished to create characters and worlds
for performers to interact with.

Another aspect of the workshop concerns the use of computerized
choreography/virtual reality and cyberspace based on notions and imagery
of travels to distant and usually outer spaces.

Navigation of this Site: Under the Menu
there are five items; 1) a Word/Phrase Index
where you can find a single alphabetical list of many of the key terms
and phrases around which this documentation is oriented; 2) a link to
the SDAT04 Homepage which has
introductory information and description of the workshop; 3) a link back
to this Documentation Introduction page; 4) a
link to the Seminars description page; 5)
a link to the Video/Animation Archive page with
some details about the public presentation day 28 May 2004.